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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]]==Crime (historical)==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Martin Davies|title=The Year After|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Captain Tom Allen is home from World War I. Whilst waiting to be demobbed, he receives an invitation to attend the annual Christmas house<!-party at Hannesford Court, the stately home of Sir Robert and Lady Stansbury. He used to look forward to it before joining up and so decides to attend again, but everything has changed. The Stansbury's heir, Harry, and son-inRemove -law, Oliver, were killed and second son, Reggie Stansbury, remains in a nursing home with no legs and dwindling self-respect. Whilst coming to terms with the devastating realisation that he's one of the very few men in their set to return alive and entire, Tom remembers pre-war Hannesford and the night when his friend Professor Schmidt died at such a gathering. Everyone believes it was unsuspicious but gradually things are coming to light that hint of hidden secrets. Along with her Ladyship's former companion, Anne (who has issues of her own), Tom decides to investigate as truths are exhumed, making him doubt whether those happier times were as idyllic as he remembers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980443</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Engelmann0571370977|title=The Stockholm Octavo|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=As a Customs and Excise 'Sekretaire' in 18th century Stockholm, Emil Larsson has all he needs: professional respect, a bachelor's lifestyle and a table at Mrs Sparrow's gaming house whenever he fancies his luck. Contrastingly, his superiors at work feel he's missing a certain something. In order to climb further up the career ladder (maybe even to maintain his current position) Emil needs to marry. His manager believes this so fervently that there's a deadline for the wedding. Emil panics but Mrs Sparrow offers to lay an 'Octavo', a fortuneLock-telling spread of eight cards to guide him to the eight people who will ensure his success. However, not all goes to plan as, over the eight nights it takes to complete the Octavo, it becomes apparent that the prediction isn't for Emil's future, but has become an Octavo to save the whole of Sweden.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444742698</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUp|author=Bruce Macbain|title=Roman Games (Plinius Secundus)John Banville

|summary=Sextus Ingentius Verpa isnIt't s six months since the most popular person dramatic events which we read about in Rome. He may be a high ranking politician with the Emperor Domitian's ear but this also means he's a spy, ambitious [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and not always using his power and position for good. When Verpa Dr Quirke is discovered, unceremoniously now back in Dublin and repeatedly stabbed in living (if somewhat uneasily) with his well-guarded bedroomdaughter, there are many who sigh with reliefPhoebe. However, the murderer must still be found The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and so Domitian appoints Gaius Plinius Secundus (or Pliny this has made the Younger as history will dub him) to investigatealready strained relationship between them more difficult. Pliny isnThey't a natural but reluctantly takes on the task because Domitian says so; Pliny has no choice. Domitian also says that the culprit must be found before re brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the end body of the Roman Gamesa young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, giving Pliny 15 daysis found in a lock-up. Over these 15 pressurised days he'll dig into Rome's filthy underbelly of cultsAt first, prostitution and other things he wasnit looked as though she't expecting, including practically adopting his own, personal rude poetd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800364</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings1529337968|title=Vices In Place of My Blood: Murdoch MysteriesFear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5

|summary=William Murdoch has at last been promoted It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to full detective, start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is born. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and continues her job will be to solve cases help patients with his usual mix of dogged determination and flairthose non-medical problems which affect their health. Toronto at the end The hardest part of the nineteenth century is marked by a huge divide between job will be to persuade people that the rich services she offers really are free and the poor, and the fact that many they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of the latter group are utterly destitute leads to all manner problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of crimes, great and smallher own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689924</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kerr057136358X|title=Fell the Angels|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Cecilia had had more surnames than was usual for a young woman April in the late nineteenth century. She was born Henderson but married Robert Castello and quickly came to realise that he was an adulterer with a drink problem. A woman's place was thought to be with her husband - even by Cecilia's wealthy parents - but they recognised that forcing her to go back to him could be problematical. As a compromise she was sent to Malvern to take a water cure and it was there that she came into contact with Dr James Gully. He was a good deal older than Cecilia but a relationship developed between the two - affection on Cecilia's part (probably the most of which she was capable) and love on his.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709098383</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSpain|author=Graeme Kent|title=One BloodJohn Banville|rating=4.5

|summary=Sergeant Kella is being sent from Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his native Malaita job, something which occurred to another part him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill a lot of the Solomon Islands to investigate logging sabotage therelittle yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. In the same district, his friend Sister Conchita has assumed reluctant control He was spending a lot of a mission time with three elderly sisters living there Percy Antrobus - who are rather set in their ways, to say couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the least. Then purpose of a body turns up swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the church… is this related to the sabotage''morning''? And how does It was after Percy's death that he saw the wartime history benefits of John F Kennedy, vying to become the new President of the USA, fit taking up a job in to all of this?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013411</amazonuk>Spain.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LongB08Z8BMZ7H|title=Murders The Mystery of London: In the steps of the capital's killers Healing|author=A P McGrath

|summary=While the true crime specialist reader may prefer books which deal We meet Solon in one case Pergamon in depth, there’s always room the second century of the common era and he's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for another title at the other end amusement of the populace. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to live. It's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the spectrumcharge hands and when we first see them, dealing in brief they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with a variety of murders over the yearswild animals. Today, it's the crocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946720</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley McKay1529337925|title=Time and TideThe Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=A ship is wrecked on It was the coast of 16th century ScotlandAugust Bank Holiday weekend and, the crew goneas so often happened, it was cold enough to have the only man on board dying fire lit and a windmill lashed Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to its deck. What happened? What sort of illness does leave it carry? And, more importantly for the town's people, who gets to keep the windmill? It's a tough one, but university professor and erstwhile lawyer Hew Cullan is Dandy Gilver warm on the casesofa.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972183</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daniel Stashower|title= The Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Dime Museum Murders|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=There are two things you need to know about Stashower's Harry Houdini. Firstly, he is a huge fan thought of Sherlock Holmeswork was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. Secondly, and much more importantly, he is utterly certain She was the publisher of his own ability to do whatever he sets his mind to. Therefore, when he finds himself involved, albeit in a minor way, in a murder, he immediately decides it is up to him to solve the case. It never occurs to him magazine and had been told that he might fail, because that is simply not an option for the Great Houdini.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857682849</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Let Loose man running the Dogs: Murdoch Mysteries|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=The fourth book Punch and Judy show in the series local park had used copies of mysteries which star Detective William Murdoch is set, like the others, in Toronto. Religion, money two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and family rule this lateher sister Freckle -Victorian city just as they do back 'home' to drum up some local interest in England, and Murdoch's struggles for truth and justice, not to mention his love life, are played out against the sense of guilt and the moral restrictions imposed upon him by his Catholic faithshow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689908</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Under the Dragon Sandy Bissett's Tailrequest was simple: Murdoch Mysteries|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Murdoch is a lonely man, still grieving for the fiancée who died over a year before. He busies himself, when he is not working, with training for the police sports' day, learning to dance, she wanted Gilver and trying to overcome his attraction Osborne to warn the charming lady who lodges in the nextman about infringement of copyright -door room. She is a charming young widow with a young son, but since she is not Catholic, he knows, sadly, that he can never find married bliss with her. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689886</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dan James|title=Unsinkable|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=This year sees the hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and several books, for both children Dandy and adults, are being published based on the story of the doomed ship. In this particular book the fact that we already know fate of the majority of the travellers adds Alex would be cheaper than employing a whole new level of tension solicitor to a story which is already an exciting thrillerdo the same job. Not only is there the question of whether they will catch the bad guy or not, but also, and more crucially: will the main characters all survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558130</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam SicilianoB08LKT7HSR|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Web Weaver Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon

|summary=An old gypsy woman places a curse on guests at a ball, leaving In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar of the upper class revellers shockedGlass Bottle Public House. When, over Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the next few years, misfortune befalls several murder of the partyElowed and his half-goersbrother, potted-meat magnate Donald Wheelwright knows thereDenzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's only one recourse left to him - to call Sherlock Holmeslong search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. It Now she's a slightly different version of Holmes from determined that we've come to expect, though. The detective, far from being an emotionless the man, is capable of feeling strongly responsible for the right woman - could the detective find love as well as the answer her murder will be brought to the mystery? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686984</amazonuk>justice.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sax RohmerStephen Clarke|title=The Mystery of Dr Fu ManchuSpy Who Inspired Me

|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Dr Petrie This is surpriseda spoof spy story, but pleased, to see his old friend Nayland Smith has returned to Englandthat isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But this is no mere pleasure visit – the former Scotland Yard it features a man is on the trail of Fu Manchucalled Ian Lemming, a Chinese doctor with 'who dresses well and 'likes the brains of any three men of genius'ladies'. Petrie is immediately plunged into a headlong race against time to stop the mysterious villain from fulfilling his evil plans and leading who works for the East to world domination!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686038</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Except secret service, but in the Dying: Murdoch Mysteries|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Victorian detective novels set in Britain are fairly common, and some planning side of things more than the most well-known and popular crime series fall into this categoryactive service. The Murdoch stories, however, come from Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a different anglefemale spy called Margaux, being placed (for and the most part) pair end up stranded in CanadaNormandy, with its snowy wastes, its logging camps and pioneering spirit. Loyalty Margaux on a desperate mission to the Queen is as ardent here as back home unearth traitors in 'the old country'resistance network, but there is a rawness and a sense of space Lemming desperately trying to these novels which is due in large part to their setting.keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857689878</amazonuk>2952163855

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Dickens0349423083|title=The Mystery of Edwin DroodDeath and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|summary=Dr Watson is happy to be returning to Lyme RegisKate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the woman Barleycorn Brewery in Masham. Something is going wrong with his business and he loves. He gets more than 'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he bargained for's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, thoughJames Lofthouse, as he is quickly embroiled in will be back from a series of killings which bear strange resemblances trip to Germany before long. James went to some of see what the cases he continental brewers were doing and Holmes have been involved inwhat changes Barleycorn might need to make. The great detective joins him, with Lestrade following William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is going to assist in their investigations, and bring back a German bride but he'd like the trio realise that they are dealing with a haunting figure from their past..business to be ship-shape before his nephew returns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780921004</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Ruffle0241433568|title=Sherlock Holmes and the Lyme Regis Horror - Expanded 2nd EditionEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi|rating=45

|summary=Taking It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a rare holiday on the Dorsetshire coast, Dr Watson manages rest and then he wants to persuade Sherlock Holmes talk to join himMegan and Henry about something serious. Delighted to spend time with Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his old friend Godfrey Jacobs, and charmed by widowed boarding guests find that he's been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else in the house proprietor Mrs Heidler, so one of them must be the good doctor is set for a pleasant and relaxing stay – until mysterious events occur, pointing to an unimaginable evil, and the game’s afoot once more!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920563</amazonuk>killer.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Park Bridges1473682401|title=My Dear WatsonThe Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=''My Dear Watson'' is written by Those who were with us at the hand end of Holmes, Lucy Holmes, whom the world came [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to know as SherlockMallory Dunnoch. Yes, the well-loved detective They're now married and Mallory is a female cross-dresser but with good reasonhaving twins. The young Lucy, having watched her mother die tragically, rushed off to live with When they arrive no one can doubt the charms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, Mycroft, at universityEdward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. In order to stay, undetected (no pun intended), she had to dress as a manThere are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying with Dandy and Hugh. Being slight Dandy and gamineher detective partner, this wasn’t difficult andAlec Osborne, after had not taken up the chance to look into a while, she preferred problem at the lifestyle. Watson hasn’t seen through the disguiseCramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, continuing to live with Holmes between marriages as they combat but suddenly the odds and solve crimes in (or despite) possibility of being out of the policehouse at Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920768</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate WilliamsSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=The Pleasures of MenHonjin Murders

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Catherine Sorgeiul To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is a woman with burdensenough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. Living with her uncle For those who need more, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in London’s East End during the reign 1930s. The oldest son of Queen Victoriaan esteemed family is belatedly getting married, hers although the whole affair is a life that seems empty really not as ostentatious as it might be – yet in fact is full of things she is trying to push awayhardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste.  Filling She only has an uncle representing her days has become a problemfamily, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, so when only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a series man missing parts of grisly murders beginshis fingers being in the neighbourhood, Catherine is drawn to and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the mystery time of the Man crime, this case has a lot of Crows in a way that seems bound to change her lifethe peculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241951399</amazonuk>1782275002

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben PastorB07XLM3SM6|title=Liar MoonMurder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon

|summary=Near VeronaElowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, northern Italyleaving her daughter, autumn 1943: Captain Martin Bora is a German military policemanKitty, known in the care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to have conducted previous murder investigations. He is asked find out what happened to look into her and the death of one Vittorio Lisiconclusion was that she was dead, a prominent local fascist who mainly because there was run over in his wheelchair on his own estate by a carno evidence to suggest otherwise. The number one suspect is his widow Claretta.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738826</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gerry O'Hara|title=Sherlock Holmes and The Affair In Transylvania|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=I normally start reviews Kitty has come to terms with a brief plot summary, but it seems almost besides the point to do so for a book entitled 'Sherlock Holmes this and in 1933 she was running the Affair Dolphin Hotel in Transylvania'Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. From those seven words, the reader will have no doubt guessed that this is a Holmes meets Dracula story, She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and so we may as well move straight on to the burning question – is it any good?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920369</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=D E Meredith|title=The DevilKitty could not understand why. She's Ribbon|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In always coped with the London mix of 1858holidaymakers, the Irish are the poorest of the poor, despised boating people and feared by the English. They were forced to emigrate from their fatherland because of the famine which decimated naval college on the population, and now the majority edge of them live in filthy, germtown before -ridden rookeries. Cholera is killing them off and she's done every job in their hundreds, and blame for their terrible conditions is laid squarely at the feet of their English masters, together with hotel. those Irishmen who And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have so far forgotten their home that they cooperate with the oppressors. And as the hottest summer been roped in to keep an eye on record drags on, things ''and the tenth anniversary of the potato blight and its horrific consequences approach, the mood in the slums is ripe for violence and murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0312557698</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thomas Bruce Wheeler|title=The London of Sherlock Holmes - Over 400 Computer Generated Street Level Photos|rating=3|genre=Travel|summary=Should I trust a book that '' why Captain Matthew Bryant has a typo on the FRONT cover? Would I purchase a book that practically says, as its first words, the e-book version is better than this paper thing? This, despite setting up very much the wrong impression, is a gateway into the world been hired to take charge of Sherlock Holmes - but does, as I say, blatantly show itself up as flawed, while the electronic version could count as a very worthwhile app for security at the Conan Doyle buffhotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780922094</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Lane0349423067|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire StormThe Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|summary=For those picking up From Christmas to Easter a Tracy Revels novel for the first timetrain ran from Leeds City Station to King's Cross, she writes Sherlock Holmes fiction with the twist arriving before dawn so that Holmes is a supernatural being, coming from the Shadowsforced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929, one of the porters who was unloading the hugely enjoyable romp [[Shadowfall: A Novel boxes discovered the body of Sherlock Holmes by Tracy Revels|Shadowfall]], Watson discovered thisa man, stripped naked and was plunged headlong into an adventure involving Titania, Spring-Heeled Jack, voodoo, with no means of identification. Scotland Yard hit a dead end and various other dark called on the services of Kate Shackleton in the hope that her knowledge and mysterious beingsconnections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. That one ended Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come to terms with the good doctor losing his memory of the story – but I was always hoping fact that she was merely now a temporary measure, and indeed, it’s not long here before he starts woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to recall Holmes’ true naturegive her all the information which the police held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920474</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John O'Connell|title=The Baskerville Legacy: A Novel|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=1900, and a man on a ship coming back from the Boer War to edit the Daily Express meets one of his heroes in the form of Arthur Conan Doyle. With similar experiences and interests yet different enough to bounce off each other they take up the idea of collaborating on a plot. When they do fix on time to do so, it leads to literary prospects, which lead to a week's research together on Dartmoor, which leads to ''The Hound of the Baskervilles''. But perhaps in a way that only one of them intended.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907595465</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dicky Neely and Paul R Spiring (Editor)1472127110|title=The Case of the Grave AccusationIndian Summer: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure|rating=3|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Much in the way that legend says that King Arthur will return when his country needs him, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson have returned because an accusation has been made against their creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The charge is that the great man plagiarised ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' from his great friend Bertram Fletcher Robinson – and then went on to commit adultery, blackmail and murder in order to conceal what he had done. Holmes' rooms in Baker Street have not changed a great deal – if one can overlook the addition of a desktop computer and better plumbing – but it's not long before the pair are off to Dartmoor to discover the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218819</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Buchan|title=The Thirty-nine Steps|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Ask anyone about 'The Thrity-nine Steps' and I guarantee they'll be able to tell you it's a spy story with Richard Hannay at its heart. Most people will be able to tell you how it starts. But when you ask, 'Yes, but what ARE the 39 Steps?' most people will falter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971985</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Tracy Revels|title=Shadowfall: A Novel of Sherlock HolmesSara Sheridan

|summary=You remember Sherlock HolmesLife has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, yes? Deerstalkerour favourite fifties sleuth, pipesince the war, leetle grey cells… (Ohand not always for the better. When she first settled in Brighton she was alone, sorryrudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, that was Poirot, but same kind of deductive the lover who died before he could leave his wife. As time went by she found in herself an ability)to solve crimes, naked winged-made friends including an ebullient and determined young woman on, or at least floating abovecalled Vesta who refused to let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and even found consolation in the sofa in Baker Street… wait arms of a minute? Seriously?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218258</amazonuk>rather charming policeman.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerard Kelly1912374439|title=The Outstanding Mysteries of Sherlock HolmesCourier|ratingauthor=4|genre=Crime Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (Historicaltranslator)|summary=I'll spare people the details of Holmes and Watson as crime-solvers – I'm assuming anyone likely to pick this one up is probably familiar with the Victorian duo. This is generally very faithful to the Arthur Conan Doyle originals and the best stories in this set of thirteen sound authentic enough to take their place alongside some of the canon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218673</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Workman|title=Rendezvous at the Populaire : A Novel of Sherlock Holmes

|summary=After chasing his archNazi-enemy Moriarty without success on occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the game away. For in a book that centres around a cold night murder, I've told you who did it – the Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen in November 1882this volume, Sherlock Holmes is left maimed which splits its time between one of war, when a young woman sees her father arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish and unable rushes to her best friend to walk without help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the use of a canelate 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. DespondentIn this timeline, he decides to give up his career as a detective – but maverick agent is talked into taking an extra special caseback in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and he lived together with their baby as a Madame Giry comes across the Channel young family, except he was thought by all to beg his help with the mysterious 'ghost' which is terrorising have died in the Opera Populaire…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218703</amazonuk>War…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carole Bugge1786075431|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Star of IndiaMrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)

|summary=A woman with a distinguished scent about her appears flustered at a concert recitalMeet Zofia. A famous landlady gets kidnapped while on an innocent holiday to the west country. A malformed, brilliant modern-day alchemist gets murdered. There is only one person, who famously went over socially climbing wife of a certain Alpine waterfall, who could piece all this and more into a threat to the Royalty and Empire itself. But there is also only one person, who famously seemed to have stayed dead in going over the same Alpine waterfallmedical professor, with the strength of mind to put the whole game into play.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681214</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Jose Farmer|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Peerless Peer|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Itshe's World War Oneintent on making herself known as a charitable lady, and Britain has got wind of some brilliant scientific research, that has created a new bacterial weapon capable of wiping out the world's supply of sauerkraut. But a dastardly German has stolen the formulakeen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. Before he can give a variant based on boiled meatIn 1890s Cracow, cabbage and potatoes to the kaiserlife is pretty good, his most recent nemesis - Sherlock Holmes, no less - must but she knows it could always be brought out of beekeeping retirementbetter. Cue an adventure and a halfMeanwhile, as he and Watson take to the skies for the first time in their hectic lives, end up in darkest Africa, and encounter a certain yodelling, long-haired nobleman, more than up to the name of King of the Jungle...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681206</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rory Clements|title=John Shakespeare: Prince|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=This other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the third in the excellent Elizabethan murder mystery series, featuring John Shakespeare, brother of Will. An inexplicable murder is linked city due to a much deeper plot lack of political dimensionshygiene, leading Shakespeare into danger and tragedy. A series of bombings, which appear many people have to be targeting the immigrant population causes huge unrest and fear, fall on charity and leads almshouses to the uncovering of further political dimensionskeep a roof over their heads.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848544251</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Perry|title=Betrayal at Lisson Grove|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=After recently reading Perry's [[Acceptable Loss by Anne Perry|Acceptable Loss]] and thoroughly enjoying itOne such was Mrs Mohr, I although she was looking forward rich enough to reading this book keep private lodgings and hoping it would be as good as read. The novel opens with Pitt, Special Branch, staff in the midst of frenzied action trying to catch a suspecther charitable home. Suspected of murder, itI say ''was's imperative that he's caught. They weave between crowds, duck through alleys, but their best efforts are simply not good enoughfor she has vanished. The man is not caught. HeOnly due to Zofia's free to strike again. This all makes for a goodhelp does she get found, old-fashioned chase as Pitt makes up his mind to board dead and in a ferry for France, believing that's where place the suspect near-lame woman could be headingnever reach by herself. Pitt is extremely thorough and meticulous Just who could be killing people in all matters of policing but this may very well bode ill later on in the story. We learn of deep unrest in parts of the world: Europe a charity home, and Ireland in particular. to what end? And Perry is good at giving her readers why does Zofia feel the need to make a little palatable history here and there, to keep us all in the loop.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075537682X</amazonuk>name for herself by answering those questions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Perry1786893762|title=Acceptable LossThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd

|summary=I must admit to not taking A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the rather stylized front cover shame and nor did I frustration left by a previous case, where the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take to the titleanother look. I got This detective is a woman, and the initial impression that this novel was going to be setting is Victorian London, with all about heaving bosoms the rich and manly men without too much substance. Was I right though? I gave a bit colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a sigh as I started on chapter one. Straight away we meet two of fascination with the central characters, Mr bizarre and Mrs Monkthe downright hideous. Mrs Monk (Hester) seems to have brought And before you're more than a local street urchin into her lovely homecouple of pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. All sounds Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a bit odd widow's cap and also stout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a bit intriguing. Perry back-tracks lady to do!) is mixed with a little for the benefit nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her readers and lets us know how this situation has come aboutchemist friend Prudhoe. The boy fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is streetby the by. Her housemaid, being seven-wise but he's foot-tall, is also now desperate for a warmsomewhat remarkable. And then, of course, safe bed and regular meals if hethere's luckythe ghost. He's had a dreadful life up till now and has somehow survived a terrible ordeal Ruby Doyle, world- famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and yes, you could say that it's clear he has a soft spot for the stuff of nightmaresdetermined young woman. I loved his name - Scuff and I automatically called him Scruff in my headIf he really exists, every timethat is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755376846</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Bradley0349414327|title=A Red Herring Without MustardSnapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|summary=Eleven year old Flavia is Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. When the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, Kate was keen to take the youngest daughter opportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, not least because the deeds of the de Luce family Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and she doesn't get on all that well with her elder sisters, Feely (Ophelia) and Daffy (Daphne)parents will be there for the event. It What could be rather lonely for better than seeing her as her father is an eccentric stamp collector family, witnessing a momentous event and her mother died in having the opportunity to take photographs of the Himalayas some ten years before, but she has her faithful bicycle, Gladys, setting for company and when she's not doing some sleuthing she's tinkering in her laboratory, where she has enough chemicals and poisons to give the modern-day Health and Safety person a heart attackWuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752897152</amazonuk> Or could it?

{{newreview|author=Cassandra Clark|title=Abbess of Meaux: The Law of Angels|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=A widow who remarried in the Middle Ages became, once again, subject to her husband, and many women of independent means preferred, therefore, the greater financial freedom afforded by taking the veil. After the death of her husband Hildegard joins the Cistercians, one of the richest and most powerful groups in Europe at the time, and sets out to found a small convent near her childhood home. Chance leads her to investigate the death of several men whose bodies she finds on her way, and in each subsequent book in the series she finds herself yet again risking her life to investigate and solve crimes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074900942X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Dinsdale|title=Three Miles|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Captain Abraham Matthews is so desperate to catch the villainous Albie Crowe and bring the youngster to justice that some people would say he was obsessed. After six months, Matthews has finally tracked down his prey, and captures him just three miles from the police station. But with Albie's boys trying to rescue him, other men without Abraham's moral compass more interested in vengeance than justice, and the Luftwaffe dropping bombs Move on Leeds, this is set to be the longest three miles of either of their lives...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057126025X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ben Pastor|title=Lumen|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Cracow, Poland, October 1939: The Germans have recently occupied Poland and are seeking to establish their authority. Captain Martin Bora of the Wehrmacht (the German army) has just arrived in the city from the battlefield to take up a posting to Intelligence. His boss asks Bora to drive him to a convent every day to see the renowned Abbess, rumoured to have mystic and healing powers. A few days later, though, she is found shot dead in the grounds of her convent. Bora is asked to investigate and report back. He proceeds to investigate who shot her and why, but as his investigation continues, there are more questions for Bora and the reader. Where does this case fit in with the priorities of the occupying forces?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738664</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Frank Tallis|title=Death and the Maiden|rating=3|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Just to clear the confusion out of the way, this book has nothing to do with the novel of the [[Death and the Maiden by Gladys Mitchell|same nameNewest Dyslexia Friendly Reviews]] by Gladys Mitchell. Both take their name from an early Schubert piece, in which Death entices the Maiden to leave the world of men. The maiden resists. It was a common enough theme at the time: the death of beauty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846053579</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=C J Sansom|title=Dark Fire|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=1540 was the hottest summer of the sixteenth century but Matthew Shardlake was doing his best to hold his legal practice together, which was made more difficult by the fact that he believed himself to be out of favour with Thomas Cromwell. He tried to keep a low profile but when he defended the accused in a most unpopular case – that of a girl accused of brutally murdering her cousin – he found that the king's chief minister had a new assignment for him. Unless he could solve Cromwell's problem his client was likely to die a slow and nasty death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330450786</amazonuk>}}